Sorry for the delay in this week's Moments of the Week. Called out to work both nights just as I was starting to type them up. Add in that it's a huge week for moments with all the great comics that came out and these just took on a life of their own. They're done now, so enjoy!Amazing Spider-Man #613
A kindly elderly couple knock on your door, what do you do? Peter's roommate, Michelle, upset her hair dryer doesn't work, goes schizo on them and is only a couple cats short of being the Crazy Cat Lady.
Blackest Night #5
All of the Lantern oaths on one splashpage. Well, except Larfleeze's. I could have sworn Johns said we'd learn his during Blackest Night, but unless it's just "Eh?", it looks like we'll have to wait a little longer to find out what it is.
Dark Avengers: Ares #2
Missing from this page - our narrator calling Ares a pussy for treating the Shades with kids gloves and protecting them like this.
Detective Comics #859
Fantastic sequence that ended this week's Detective.
Fantastic Four #573
Gotham City Sirens #6
Green Lantern #48
Anyone else think of Liar Liar when they read this? I can only picture Atrocitus with Jim Carrey's voice now. Oh, and posting this image just because I liked the splashpage and how the previous two pages, not shown, led into it.
Sinestro is the best.
Indigo-1 can channel the black rings too? Interesting. I wonder if she was corrupted and that's why she had them all "feed" the Black Lantern Power Battery on Earth and if she knew it was a bad thing.
Apparently Abin Sur gets around. Was even the saviour of Indigo-1. He's mentioned in the Indigo Tribe oath as well. Curious and curiouser.
Guardians of the Galaxy #20
Looks like that Realm of Kings one-shot last week is getting followed up on immediately with this Guardians issue after one of the members of the Knowhere station ventured out into the Fault and cameback with a tentacle monster for a head.
Incredible Hercules #138
Silly Zeus, you can't kill Captain America. Wait, that's the annoying wannabe Cap, US Agent? Commence with the lightning bolts.
Chris Rock is the God of Wisecracks? I've lost all respect for you Spider-Man. At least you didn't say Dane Cook. *shudder*
Ignoring the overly elaborate and complex plan that amounted to driving an EMT vehicle into the building and everyone busting out for a fight (brilliant Hank Pym and Amadeus Cho, simply brilliant), I don't know why, but a Trojan EMT vehicle acting as a Trojan horse just makes me laugh every time I look at it.
Justice League of America #39
Yes, the above image is Dr Light licking Firestorm's girlfriend's dead body, which was turned to salt by the Black Lantern Firestorm.
Justice League: Cry for Justice #5
To recap, Green Arrow's sidekicks consist of a girl with HIV, a coma boy (not sure if his son woke up yet actually) and now the one-armed man, formerly drug addict lad. Note to self, do not become Green Arrow's sidekick.
And Captain Marvel is the bad guy. Or it's implied Captain Marvel did it. I'm not sure, didn't read it. Coincidentally, Supergirl and Captain Marvel do not kiss or embrace or otherwise interact in any way like that cover of them kissing implied.
Ms. Marvel #47
New Avengers #59
Oh, it's just Iron Fist and Daredevil and a couple of other lightweights. Nothing to worry about...
Scatch that. Iron Fist just ruined your shit! This was also the first time I've seen Iron Fist in his Immortal Iron Fist costume outside of said book. All I can say is it's about time.
Secret Warriors #10
"You must die, son." Dad of the year right there folks.
Superman: Secret Origin #3
While I hate, absolutely hate, having entire panels filled with text, I wanted to comment on what they are talking about here. No, I don't have any problem with it or the characters. I just find it parrallels what we do with reviewing and writing for the blog. It's really easy to be a bitch and tear everything down and being the cynical bastard. It's difficult to be objective. I don't know how successful we are with it, but I'd like to think we try our best to at least not be Comic Book Guy bashing everything we see. Feel free to link back to this image for us if you ever feel we're turning into Secret Origin Lois Lane.
Thor Giant Size Finale #1
And he even puts Thor's "hammer" to shame. Poor Sif, she can't even look away. No way she and Thor stay together after this.
Wasn't sure if I should post this or not. It's technically just a preview for next wee's Thor #604, so I assume I'll be posting it again next week's Moments of the Week. However, it bears mentioning now because a) Gillen did a great job with it, particularly with Dr Doom, b) Kelda dies and c) does Doom have the Destroyer armour? Sure looks like it to me.
Ultimate Avengers #4
For some reason, I can see Cap, or anyone that was transplanted into the digital age, being obsessed with television and daytime television.
Uncanny X-Men #517
That is definitely the same hideous girl copied and pasted four different times. At least he was able to flip the Psylocke one and give her a bigger forehead. And why the hell is Magneto flying in a completely different direction from everyone else? LANNNNNDDDD!!!!
Rogue asking the children she's councilling to touch her. Right now. Best out of context image ever?
Wonder Woman #38
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Kind of sucks that the Kelda character died, she seemed like an interesting character. Oh well.
Some really great moments this week, Kirk.
1. I loved Sinestro threatening Agent Orange and appealing to Atrocitus to team up, only to have both come after him. Yup seems like everyone in the universe hates Sinestro.
2. WHAT??!!! DID THEY REALLY kill off Plastic Man? Robinson relies too much on killing. And to be real, Plastic Man shouldn't have a heart, he doesn't have any organs, he's fluid. He can't be killed by Vibe. I refuse to have this character to be killed off by someone who was a part of Justice League Detroit.
3. That picture of Red Arrow was grotesque. I can't imagine him without an arm for the remainder. It's just so over the top.
But who is IN the Destroyer armor, or, rather, whose soul is inhabiting it? That will be the interesting question. Dr. Doom and Loki would not trust that power to just any lackey.
Thor: Oh yeah, let's kill new, interesting characters who will never come back, like Bill and Kelda. I wish Marvel had a new politic about death: characters who appeared in more than 100 issue stay dead, and those who didn't had enough spotlights may be resurrected.
ASM: I love Michelle! And Norah! That's what I missed in JMS Spiderman: crazy, angry characters like JJJ or Mrs Muggins.
Uncanny: now after being redshirts, wallpapers and damsels in distress, the X-Kids have a new job: power supply for Super Rogue.
It sucks to be a mutant in the MU. It sucks to be young in the MU. It sucks to be a recent character in the MU. And the X-Kids have the 3 kinds of suck.
JLA: So is the writer Jeph Robinson or James Loeb?
I wonder if after Spiderman, JMS has decided he needs to kill off any lovers before he leaves a book just to keep Quesada from screwing them up.
@mugiwara - I imagine Bill was planned to die from the start of JMS's run. Kelda may have been a plot point handed to Gillen or she may still survive. She is a god afterall and every single Asgardian has been dead before at some point.
Even Aunt May doesn't act right in Spiderman anymore. Those writers! I mean, come on, she used to be all "OH woe is me, Peter! Peter, are you safe? Are you well? Where are you? Want some wheat cakes?!" and now she's all "Hmm, crazy roommate home, Peter's gone. Eh, let's go to Hawaii!" LOL Geesh.
I miss the Aunt May that convinced the Chameleon she had fatally poisoned him.
Plastic Man didn't die, the next page says his heart is made of rubber too so Vibe couldn't use it.
I think what's more interesting than the 300 chat is the implication that Ares was a Nazi.
@Anonymous: I don't think that's surprising at all. The Axis powers were the aggressors in World War 2. Ares would naturally gravitate towards them regardless of anything else. All the politics, ideology, and atrocity is just noise to the God of War.
I hadn't noticed that Indigo's oath had "Abin Sur" in it. I thought it was a bunch of gibberish, so I didn't pay attention to it. I figure it's probably something like "To prevent the war Abin Sur foresaw" or along those lines.
I love Matt Fraction, but you can tell he is not from the south by the fact that he didn't not use "y'all" properly.
I know James Robinson's run on Starman is supposed to be great, but from what I can tell based on his current output,now he seems to rely basely on useless violence killing C-List characters.
Matt - Starman was one of the most boring comics I ever read. Took me a couple weeks to get through the first omnibus and I didn't even finish the second one. Some of the dullest comics that I've seen. His take on The Shade was awesome though.
@Anyone- Red Tornado is a robot, correct? So why does it look like Vibe attempted to rip his heart and/or chest out? Was punching his head off not graphic enough for Robinson? Was he actually powered by a heart like General Grievous? Retconned to not being a robot? I believe Blackest Night's violence for the hell of it is now causing my head to spin.
@Matt - Being from the South, there are no proper boundaries on the use of "y'all." It made perfect sense to me, lol.
Connor Hawke (Green Arrow's son and I am sure a lof of fans would be upset by you calling him Ollie's sidekick haha) is no longer in a coma. He lost his skill in archery after having his DNA merged with Plastic Man's or something when he was returned from the coma but he is traveling the globe.
@Matt:
"I love Matt Fraction, but you can tell he is not from the south by the fact that he didn't not use "y'all" properly."
I love Matt Ampersand, but you can tell he is not from the grammar wing by the fact that he typed "didn't not".
For me the best moment comes from Incredible Hercules: Athena sends Venus to keep Ares busy and she does it by saying - "then make love to me...like you were going to war"
How could Ares say no to that? :D
@Monch: He could say "no" by realizing that Aphrodite is his sister. :)
In Pak & Van Lente's defense, they really manage to make godly incest almost seem not creepy at all. Almost. That's quite the accomplishment given our natural inclination to think it's disgusting.
Aaron K - There is actually a funny scene in Rucka's WW run where Ares tells one of his sons to stop stop hitting on his aunt since they are family to which the son replies "That's never stopped anyone before" or something like that. I couldn't stop laughing. Greek myths are so much fun given modern morality and what not.
No Dark Wolverine?
Man, you´re missing something...
"He could say "no" by realizing that Aphrodite is his sister. :)"
I don't believe so. Traditionally, Aphrodite was born (after a major time-delay) from when Cronos threw his father Uranus' severed junk into the ocean. Which, if you consider that as making her a child of Uranus, would make her Ares' great-aunt.
I finally got around to reading Dark Avengers: Ares, and it really is every bit as good as the moments suggest. Kieron Gillen is just nailing Ares' character, and has just the right mix of action, mythology, and snappy dialogue. Even Ares' Shades are interesting enough to make me want to read more of them. And Manuel Garcia's art is the perfect complement. Just like his Beta Ray Bill mini, Dark Avengers: Ares is a gem. Can't wait for his run on Thor now.
@Lucho - I didn't see any Dark Wolverine moments in my travels around the internet. Was there a particular scene or panel that you thought warranted attention? I rely on message boards, scans_daily, and other image based boards for these moments, especially in the case of books I don't read, such as with Dark Wolverine. If people don't tell me about them/don't post about 'moments', I can't really compile and repost it here
Does anyone else think that Dwayne McDuffie, whose entire run on JLA was nothing but tie-ins, could have done a much better job writing a Blackest Night tie-in than Robinson?
No mention of this week's Comic Book Typo in the "Superman: Secret Origin" panel up there?
"Pubisher."
@Danny Rand: Man, I knew that typo was going to come back and bite me in the ass. I realized it after I posted the comment, but I was in a hurry so I decided not to delete it and post it again.
Anonymous, after the way McDuffie was dissed and dismissed from the JLA, I think anything related to it he wouldn't touch right now with a 10 foot pole.
I am hoping his Milestone Wrapup is a success just so he'll get another high profile team book....
@Daryll B.: Yeah, you do have a good point in that McDuffie still has some sour feelings over what happened, (I still think he got a raw deal with all those editorial tie-ins), although I thought his final Milestone arc in JLA was actually one of the best JLA arcs I've read, and actually used the convulated plot of Final Crisis to his advantage.
P.S.>> What team book would you prefer to see McDuffie on? I would like either a return to JLA or Teen Titans.
McDuffie on The Titans would be awesome JP but it seems J.T. Krul has hit his stride on the book. So let me see, I need a book with a large number of heroes, where McDuffie could be free to juggle interpersonal stories with action. Hmmm
I am so putting in my vote for McDuffie to do a Legion of SuperHeroes run right after Levitz. Especially in that universe where the JLA were the direct influences on the Legion. THAT would rock and he'd be free of most crossovers....
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